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Rebalance a volume's capacity

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Rebalance the capacity of a volume to avoid imbalances that develop over time.

About this task

Rebalancing a volume redistributes the capacity when imbalances develop over time due to the addition of new files and file growth. After you manually start the rebalance operation, we select the files and move them automatically and non-disruptively.

Note Rebalancing a volume is only supported for FlexGroup volumes.
Before you begin

To rebalance a volume, you must associate a link. If you don't have an existing link, create a link. To associate a link in the file system, click Associate link under Account name. Once the link associates, return to this operation.

Steps

  1. Log in to the Workload Factory console

  2. In Storage, select Go to storage inventory.

  3. In the FSx for ONTAP tab, select the three dots menu of the file system that contains the volume to rebalance and then select Manage.

  4. From the file system overview, select the Volumes tab.

  5. From the Volumes tab, select the three dots menu of the volume to rebalance.

  6. Select Advanced actions, then Rebalance volume.

  7. In the Rebalance volume dialog, select Rebalance.